DISCUSS: Have you ever walked a route that you had only previously driven? What is different? What did you notice about the conventions of music notation from having to copy music, rather than perform it?
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CHAPTER 1: Notation [AP HOME]
Brief history of Western musical notation. Conventions of music notation.
Brief History of Western Notation
"When Copying Is Good," Episode 4 from What Music Means to Me podcast.
(Download the podcast guide for this episode.)
Read Thomas Cahill’s How the Irish Saved Civilization (pp. 162-163)
PROJECT: Copy cadenza from the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto: Project Worksheet (2-pages) . You will need a sheet of clean manuscript paper for this assignment.
Arutunian Trumpet Concerto on YouTube (Sergei Nakariakov, Soloist). Grading Rubric for this project.
Recording of the opening of the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto (soloist, Kenneth Laudermilch)
Some background on Alexander Arutunian and his Trumpet Concerto.
DISCUSS: Have you ever walked a route that you had only previously driven? What is different? What did you notice about the conventions of music notation from having to copy music, rather than perform it?
NEED BLANK MANUSCRIPT for this project? Try this...